Sentences with phrase «city families struggling»

«With record numbers of New York City families struggling with homelessness, we are proud to partner with Borough President Melinda Katz and people across Queens on Project: Back to School, which gives homeless children backpacks and school supplies critical to their academic success.»

Not exact matches

As much as I am outside of my comfort zone here (I do not attend church - nor plan on doing so ever again, I have plenty of non-christian friends but not one Christian friend in my current city, I DJ at a bar, I run a radio that plays secular music (yet everything is sacred), I work a regular day job, I struggle with financial hardship and responsibilities I never asked for..., I sometimes have fear of the future and many times my faith dwindles... Some days I cry because I support my family and I feel just really tired...) despite all this fractured humanity that I am....

Martin's family isn't exactly struggling after winning a boatload of cash from their civil court case against the city of Sanford.

Kristin: MomsRising is working on all of those family economic security policy priorities in cities, counties and states across the country, educating leaders about what's happening with moms, and educating the media, as well as reaching out to moms and letting them know that they're not alone in their struggle, and that together, they can make change.

With over a decade of experience working in hospitals, agencies, and schools throughout New York City and Westchester County, Dr. Raskin has supported families with children struggling with emotional and behavioral regulation, anxiety, and developmental delays and disabilities.

Protecting the City while neglecting Britain's struggling families is «immoral», according to Scotland's senior Catholic.

«A continual reliance on a combination of unprecedented borrowing, and fare hikes every two years is unsustainable — not when working families in this city continue to struggle to make ends meet.»

Additionally, the state awarded $ 300,000 to three providers to establish «Family Support Navigator» programs to help families in New York City and Long Island that are struggling with addiction to navigate insurance and treatment systems.

«We are deeply grateful to the attorney general for securing a historic settlement that will make a real difference for families struggling across the city and state.

NYC students who struggle the most with state reading and math tests are unlikely to achieve mastery of the subjects while enrolled in the city schools, according to a new report from the pro-charter group families for Excellent Schools.

Erie County legislators are struggling to come up with a comprehensive solution to address the heroin and opioid scourge plaguing families in every city and town throughout the region, about which many people are unaware.

She still remembers the struggles her parents faced as day laborers in New York City... But a new investment by the New York City Council might help improve the quality of life of day laborers and their families.

But he lashed out at the governor's proposal to slash funding for state programs aimed at helping struggling families remain in their apartments, a paring back that would apply only to New York City.

The City of Lackawanna is home to many families who are struggling financially and having a safe place to live is an important step in helping them,» said Legislator Dixon.

Using grim spy photography left over from the Communist era, Karl Marx City establishes a starkly beautiful black - and - white aesthetic to narrow history down to a single family's struggle.

When Mt. Vesuvius erupts at Pompeii, a retired Special Ops commando calls on his former unit to save his family struggling to survive within the city.

She has strong family roots in the place made famous by «gangsta rap,» and a long list of ambitious reforms for the long - struggling city south of L.A.

Sony Pictures has hired Kenya Barris to adapt the 1970s comedy, about a family struggling to get by in an inner - city Chicago housing project.

Posing as an unassuming toy department clerk, she sets out to ensure that this Christmas is memorable and meaningful for all at a struggling family - owned department store in New York City.

For a time, she was compelled only by the all - consuming desire to start a family with him; but that desire would soon be complicated by her struggles to conceive, and her hopes of becoming a mother would in turn be interrupted by the coming of the brutal Balkan war and the longest violent siege of a city in modern history.

A struggling family that's determined to make a better life for themselves in one of America's most idyllic cities is learning the hard way that the affluent community isn't as glamorous as they initially believed.

The film rotates between three struggles: the isolation of the miners struggling to survive, the tent city populated by their families struggling to maintain hope, and the Chilean government struggling with the politics and public relations of a rescue mission.

His character is a man lost in the city, struggling with addiction, to find shelter and hang on the remnants of his family.

Little Boxes — An interracial family struggles to adjust after relocating from New York City to a small, predominantly white town in Washington State.

Universal City, California, April 11, 2018 — Inspired by the 2008 cult classic The Strangers, The Strangers: Prey at Night is based on real events surrounding a family struggling to survive as they are attacked on their vacation by a trio of masked psychopaths that hunt their prey with seemingly no rhyme or reason.

Unfortunately, due to a combination of financial challengers and demographic shifts — in which Catholic families moved from cities to the suburbs and new Catholic immigrants moved to the South and Southwest U.S. rather than Northeast metropolitan areas — urban Catholic parishes struggled, particularly those in cities like New York, Chicago, Boston, and D.C.

Earlier this year, the city council created a steering committee to determine whether students at charter schools - many of whom are low - income students of color whose families struggle to afford college - are eligible for the scholarship funds.

The city continues to struggle to retain families with older children (Moored & Metcalf, 2015).

The city struggles to retain middle - income families and those with older children, and some schools are overcrowded while others are under - enrolled.

Mr. Field, in his closing remarks on January 22nd, claimed that adults cry at the lottery when their child isn't selected for a seat at F.T.C. I suggest that there are many families in this city whose struggles are so significant that they do not even have the resources to cry over a lottery which they don't have the means to apply but whose children would be left with even less financial resources if this application was approved.

But inner - city families all to often struggle to find a high - quality option they can afford.

But too many students and families — especially those who live in large cities, who are Black or Latino, or who struggle with poverty — need better public schools and school systems.

Eviction rates, coupled with the city's struggling manufacturing and service industries, have led many families to frequently move.

This district public school, which is located in a high - poverty neighborhood in New York City, has historically struggled to engage parents in its educational efforts, and welcomed Family Playlists as a potentially effective tool to do so.

As the Brookings Institution has pointed out in a book it is releasing tomorrow, the percentage of poor families flocking to suburbia increased by 67 percent; on average, 12 percent of residents in suburbia are struggling economically and socially, versus 22 percent of residents in big cities.

In other paired stories, an Imperial policeman who is forced to leave the continent after rumors spread of his homosexuality reappears as a doorman in New York City who brings solace to a young betrayed woman; a young girl held hostage in a brothel plots a brutal revenge against the madam who keeps her, and then the madam reappears as a wizened midwife who delivers a baby to a Hindu woman forced to make a terrible choice about the child; a Muslim boy who escapes a train raided by a murderous mob reemerges as a grandfather who has moved to London to be with his family and whose granddaughter struggles to save her marriage after the death of their child; a young cartographer alters a small section of the Radcliffe Line with terrible consequences, and then his boss reappears as a senile old man who sets off in search of a prostitute he often hires.

In scenes alive with emotional truth, River, Cross My Heart weighs the effect of Clara's absence on the people she has left behind: her parents, Alice and Willie Bynum, torn between the old world of their rural North Carolina home and the new world of the city, to which they have moved in search of a better life for themselves and their children; the friends and relatives of the Bynum family in the Georgetown neighborhood they now call home; and, most especially, Clara's sister, twelve - year - old Johnnie Mae, who must come to terms with the powerful and confused emotions sparked by her sister's death as she struggles to decide and discover the kind of woman she will become.

In this riveting sequel to One Crazy Summer, the Gaither sisters return to their grandmother's house in New York City, where they struggle with the chaos of turbulent times and changing family relationships.

Over the last three decades, the FHA has backed most of the loans provided to inner city families and minorities, providing homeowner status to people who have historically struggled to obtain home loans.

New York City has several programs in place to help struggling pet owners continue to provide their furry family members with veterinary care, food, and other necessities when finances are tight.

Consider that almost 25 percent of Torontonians live at or below the poverty line and you'll find that more than 400,000 pets in this city could be living in households where families may struggle to put food on their tables and in their pets» bowls.

Fortunately, New York City has several programs in place to help struggling pet owners continue to provide their furry family members with veterinary care, food, and other necessities.

«Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City,» by Matthew Desmond, a professor of sociology at Princeton University, follows eight Milwaukee families «as they struggle to keep a roof over their heads.

The idea of returning home tells the various stories during the Apartheid struggle of men who had left their family homes in search of labor, migrating to the mines or cities, or even political exiles who had taken a pact to leave the shores of South Africa as a means to take up arms against a brutalist regime.

Many young people have seen their parents struggle to support the families in the countryside, and therefore move to cities in hopes of a better life and a completely different career.

«River City Counseling LLC treats individuals and their families who are struggling with alcoholism, drug addiction, and other addictions.

However, youths growing up in impoverished, inner - city neighborhoods face obstacles to conventional development.1, 2 Many African - American adolescents are caught up in the subculture of «the streets» and, in the transition to adulthood, risk becoming school dropouts, premature parents, marginally employed adults, welfare recipients, and struggling family members.

Mental health treatment and therapy in Columbia City is sometimes a struggle to afford for families and individuals without proper insurance coverage.

Mental health treatment and therapy in Pell City is sometimes a struggle to afford for families and individuals without proper insurance coverage.

Since moving to the city, I have worked with couples, families, and adolescents, including families struggling with substance abuse.